HOME AND THE WORLD by Michael Mooring

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Home and the World “To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit....

LOVE LETTERS TO EMOTIONALY UNAVAILABLE MEN

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LOVE LETTERS TO EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE MENBy Michelle Tin Part I. Wonderland I don’t trust you at all.This isn’t about why we broke up. This is about walks in the park. It’s mix CDs and Texas. It’s...

SANTA CLARA RIVERLESS by Ellen T. Birrell

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SANTA CLARA RIVERLESSBy Ellen T. Birrell  We are hard to find. If you were to search our address for directions, you would only get to the end of the county maintained road about two miles...

THE DINNER TABLE by Frances Guerin

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The Dinner Table By Frances Guerin Dinner at 29 Alpha Road was a formal occasion. My family sat around an antique oak table in a wood-panelled room every night of the week. The ten-seater table was the...

THE PEOPLE I USED TO KNOW By Nate Tulay

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POSTMODERN MUDby Iggy J. Louis    In Lieu Introductions and FrontiersA perfect ideology is as rare as common sense. There are near a billion perspectives when looking at what’s wrong with the current station of...

BROWN by Violet Piper

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"I cannot believe you got her a kazoo." Gemma grimaced at her youngest child, Ayla, who spiritedly blew into my plastic birthday gift. The toddler accompanied the room as we serenaded her; she kazooed with...

RESILIENT CHAINS By David Boyle

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RESILIENT CHAINSBy David Boyle How many times have we looked within ourselves for an answer to the question What is happiness? More than any of us can imagine, I suppose.  I first asked myself that...

MY BODY by Maria Rodriguez

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My Body As a child, I never played with or asked for baby dolls. Those dolls never caught my attention. Growing up being a wife and mother was heavily talked about and expected of women....

HOW THE AUSTIN GOT TO AUSTIN by Charlie Dickinson

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Daddy was a civil engineer trying out to be a Fuller Brush Man. He'd bought a sales kit of samples—Fuller hairbrushes are guaranteed forever!—from the guy who would see if Daddy could sell door-to-door...

THE APOLOGY OF MASLOW by Nate Tulay

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THE APOLOGY OF MASLOW( For Miss Caroline and Flocka )by Nate Tulay "esteem""self-actualization""belonging”"safety,""physiological," Friends, if you had food, water, shelter and warmth, i.e., physiological, and you and your neighbors came together and created a community, i.e....